Trask-Black Prairie

[ti:Trask] [ar:Black Prairie] [al:Fortune] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Trask - Black Prairie [00:06.13]Upon the Clatsop Plains [00:07.92] [00:09.01]There lived a restless man [00:10.87] [00:12.06]His fire was not cooled by the rain [00:14.38] [00:15.12]His longing for this land [00:16.86] [00:18.23]In 1843 [00:19.67] [00:20.85]With a Tamanawis guide [00:22.86] [00:24.11]He crossed the great Mt Neah-Kahnie [00:26.33] [00:27.26]Under stormy skies [00:28.90] [00:41.74]The Killamook Tyee [00:43.65] [00:44.64]Made him prove his worth [00:46.41] [00:47.44]He walked into the forest deep [00:50.36]To the belly of the earth [00:52.30] [00:53.37]His name was Elbridge Trask [00:55.09] [00:56.07]And he laid his body down upon the grass [00:59.65] [01:00.35]Where his heart had called him home [01:02.47] [01:06.24]He went solemn to his task [01:08.37] [01:09.12]Searching ever for the path [01:11.15] [01:12.08]Under branch and moss and stone [01:14.52] [01:40.10]From darkness he awoke [01:41.56] [01:42.85]With spirits all around [01:44.41] [01:45.77]He carried them back tied with a rope [01:48.51]And laid them on the ground [01:50.34] [01:51.47]His name was Elbridge Trask [01:53.12] [01:54.06]And he laid his body down upon the grass [01:57.75] [01:58.53]Where his heart had called him home [02:00.71] [02:03.78]The people followed in his tracks [02:06.69] [02:07.50]And built their houses on the land [02:09.62] [02:10.36]Where the spirits once had flown [02:12.92] [02:15.57]His name was Elbridge Trask [02:17.05] [02:21.31]His name was Elbridge Trask